First, I recorded an audio post about what is real time curation and what problem does it solve? You might listen to that, because it’ll explain what these tools are solving and how I’ll judge them over the next few days. Listen here:

Based on my first playing with these tools it is clear that Curated.by and Storify are in the lead. They let you mix multiple media together, not just Tweets, and have good and easy-to-use drag-and-drop interfaces to let you reorder things. Who will be best? I need a few days putting them through their paces. If you are using these tools at Techcrunch, post your URLs in the comment area here and I’ll link your curation into mine, which is one way to get group curation.

Also, most, if not all, of these are embed-able in blog posts, so they are designed for the modern web and they seem to understand how to distribute themselves back into Twitter and Facebook. Below I’ll embed each of the curated feeds so you can watch them all in the morning and see how they behave when updated.

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Tank you Robert. Great reporting and right on the mark with this growing coverage of real-time news curation. I have almost finished preparing a map identifying all of the tools and services that can be of use for an online news curator and if you want to give a peek and your suggestions to it before it’s out, feel free to tweet me and I’ll let you in.

Here is also another example of one of your above listed tools at work. Here is an “open”, daily updated curated stream of all the relevant new stories coming out on the topic of real-time news curation: http://keep.la/a7U7Y0

Thanks for the summary. This trend will surely produce some yet to be known “curators” of all types, for all industries and topics. But still, the original content has to come from somewhere and it has to be good.

This is definitely a compelling feature – ability to autopost to blogs makes it easy to distribute to your larger audience in combination with your own long-form commentary.One problem though, is that since these widgets are Javascript, the content won’t show up in a lot of RSS readers. At Keepstream we’re trying to develop an HTML-style widget that will show up – not available yet, we’re still tinkering with how it would work. But then it won’t reflect newly-added content, so it’s a tough balance. Sign in with Twitter at http://keepstream.com to get email updates or follow our blog (http://blog.keepstream.com) to stay in the loop on feature releases.btw.. tarpipe looks cool!

I agree that it’s a tough balance between having a static blog post that can be easily distributed through RSS and having an always updated widget. Anyway, I think that’s a feature journalists would like to have.

Which brings me to the second difference. We’re already in deployment at numerous customers and plan to announce a major rev to our platform on Thursday.

In your video interview with Curated.by, you mentioned the San Mateo gas fire earlier in the month and how these curation products bring real-time information into one place.

Yes, that’s true and I’m not discounting this value, but I think most people value the combination of journalism and applying that journalistic expertise in inserting social media information into story.

When I looked at coverage of the San Mateo gas fire, I couldn’t find one news organization that pulled real-time information into their reporting.

I’m in San Francisco this week and would welcome a chance to talk to you about what we’re seeing at the high-end of the space. I personally come out of the digital side of business at CTV (largest broadcaster in Canada) so believe we have some common ground.

I think you might be surprised by the amount of innovation in Toronto.

At the risk of sounding like ‘Another person commenting to plug their product’, I think the product I’m working on; http://qrait.com, will be one to watch. Heavily in development at the moment but I’m really excited about it. Super easy to curate and bundle content from all around the web and make it completely realtime. And of course, we have the best name!